Darkness took me, and I strayed out of thought and time. Stars wheeled overhead and everyday was as long as a life age of death. But it is not the end, I found life in me... again...
!!! Discipline wanteD !!!

surrounded by crowds doesn't chase away literal loneliness

dear lord embrace me with your blessings

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Friday, August 31, 2012

Flight KL-Sydney
took 8 hours. And we arrived in Sydney Airport at 9.15am (that’s 7.15am in
Malaysia). Good night sleep? No comment. I had a so-so OK sleep the prior 4
hours and gone topsy-turvy for the next. At least I didn’t wake up moody for not
having enough sleep because I was mentally prepared that I shouldn’t expect the
on-flight-sleep to be so comfy.

“OH MY GOD! I’VE
OFICIALLY LANDED IN SYDNEY NOW!” should be the first line I blurted by right.
But no, it wasn’t. Instead I was like “Great, I just got off the plane, half
sleepy face and need to stand in long queue for immigration check”

Done with all
the procedure, we marched to the arrivals hall. There, a few medical students
from University of Newcastle had already waited for us.

Newie friends from left: Hanif, Faka, Fariz

Newie friends from left: Ainun, Raden, Aqilah

us!

For our 7 days
stay in Australia, we’ll be in Newcastle for 2 days and Sydney for the rest.

Because
the immigration border procedure took too long that it already reached lunch
hour, so we decided to have our lunch and salah before heading to Newcastle.

Oporto for lunch

And it’s time to
take a train to Newcastle! I’m not sure what time our tickets were, and I can’t
remember how long the journey was. I was totally out of track of time because
(1) still confuse with the 2 hours difference, (2) I was busy looking out of the
window halfway to Newcastle, (3) and spent another half sleeping to compensate my
not-so-good-sleep last night. Surprisingly it was more comfortable sleeping in
the train.

Cute girls on train :)

Arrived at Broadmeadow station somewhere past 5pm and it was getting dark. Yea winter.

In Newcastle we were divided into groups according to houses we'll be staying in. I was staying in Castle. They named it Castle, it's a house indeed. I think all houses have names here. The house is nice! No, nice is too underrated. The house is awesome! Together with everything and everybody else in it! Despite the low temperature, we were welcomed warmly. Very!

First night in Newcastle we had some ice breaking with Malaysian's students. Lots of things were shared. And everybody was so sweet.

Until it was time for bed. First experience being in a sleeping bag. Wiggling comfortably ^^

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

I always wished
to be able to have a happy packing time. Surprisingly I never did. Packing always
comes in the very last minute no matter how early I started. It made me grew up
believeing I have packaphobia (which we all know it’s the way I say things to
exaggerate).

Departed from
hostel at 6pm and arrived at LCCT around maghrib. I’m pretty positive my mind
wanders a lot, but of something I’m not sure what. It was a mixed feeling. Unlike
other friends who can’t stop taking pictures and can’t stop talking; I don’t need
to listen to what they were saying to know they were excited. Not to say I wasn’t,
only I don’t own a nice camera to camwhore with and most of the time I have
vacancy next to me.

The mixed feelings
came even since I started packing. Do they have word to describe this feeling? Traveller’s
blues I guess. What if I forgot to bring anything important? What do I do on
the plane for 8 hours? Since I was one of the committees, will everything goes
well as planned? What if anything goes wrong? How am I supposed to handle
things in places I’ve never been to? What if anything went wrong with the
plane? What if anything happened to me? Someone slipped drugs into my bag. Or my
passport is stolen. Or I am kidnapped! Call me paranoid. Hell yeah I think a lot.`

We boarded the plane
at 11.20pm, along with the mixed feelings. At least I have 8 hours to get into
relax mode.

I prayed so the
journey is blessed by Him.

What I was anticipating, the next morning I open my eyes I’ll be in Sydney!

In the name of Allah the most Gracious, most
Compassionate.

“Say, [O Muhammad], "Travel through the land and
observe how He began creation. Then Allah will produce the final creation. Indeed
Allah , over all things, is competent." (29:20)

Sunday, August 12, 2012

It’s been
approximately 3 weeks since I landed in Malaysia from my Sydney trip. I was
actually so close to not posting anything about it simply because I’m too
lazy to, until I noticed quite a number of friends still wished to
listen to my babbles and rattles. What a surprise. But please, don’t expect
so much. Please anticipate, and I’ll try to write the best travelogues I could!
I have yet to grasp what writing styles should I use (as to make things
interesting) is one thing. Plus I’m in the middle of digging all the related
folders on my lappy just to recall what have we done in Aussie; tentative,
places, pics etc. Maybe the following entries would be more pictorials rather
than wordy. After all just enjoy what’s left in my memory that I got to jot
down.

USIM
Internalization Program to Australia. It’s an annual faculty program for 3rd
year students. Don’t be too excited now, having it titled under our faculty
program doesn’t make it free though. We still need to pay for the expenses. Our
previous batches went to Egypt, Jordan and China but my batch on the other hand
wanna plan for something more extravagant than that so that was when Australia
came into the picture.

I’m second in
line after the director; Hafiz (self credit heh) worked on the proposal, papers
and planning over a year along with all the committees. The dilemma about it
was the hardship to juggle things up including the studies. Apparently when you
have to accommodate your timetable with you dean’s just to have meetings with
him every now and then, calling up companies searching for potential sponsors. Among
the regular faces that went to-and-fro the admin office (pengalaman kena marah
dengan dekan because I didn’t do things properly T_T), well the good thing
about it was I bet even the receptionist recognized me now.

We did anything
we could to raise as much fund.

Car boot sale

Recycles! We're going green!

Weekly DimSum selling

Selling booth during occasions

Carwash services for lecturers and students

Futsal amal

And keep calling from company o company

Special tributes
to everyone who contributed for the fund raising, all the sweats only Allah can
pay that :’)

Alhamdulillah.

To keen juniors
who’re curious how much we spent on this trip per head, it’s RM 4K, for 7 days;
including hotel, transportation and foods. But since we were able to raise fund
up till more than RM30K, so technically we each only need to pay 3000++.

Saturday, August 11, 2012

All books have
covers. If we ourselves are books, why don’t we question, who’re actually
responsible for the cover, or at least who’re responsible to let people see the
cover we wanted them to see. Mask? That’s a totally a different thing.

When was the
last time you said to yourself “don’t judge a book by its cover”?

Cliché as it
sounds but true enough. We’re human. Admit it. No matter how not judgmental we
tried to be, at some point things just can’t be helped.

To judge, sometimes
that can be overrated. Try hypothesis instead. Just like in statistics; null
hypothesis and research hypothesis (I don’t learn statistics for nothing. heh),
if significant evidence aren’t enough for conclusion why don’t go for the safe side then. Think
good, think about all the good things that you could. Husnuzzon.

Bersangka
baiklah, selagi boleh.

Everyone has
their own struggle.

If I am a potent
smoker, and I smoke 20 packets per day. Suddenly one day I decided to stop
smoking. It’s impossible for me to get over it in just one day. Instead I smoke
less 1 packet as each day passed.

How human sees
it: I am smoking

How I see it: I’m
struggling to quit smoking

How Allah sees
it: ???

It’s the
struggle people. And it’s always the sweetest when we’re struggling because of
HIM.

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